Laura Numeroff is one of my favorite children's book authors. The week before winter break we read A LOT of stories she wrote. Below are some of the titles we read:
Her books are catchy, funny and teach kids a wonderful writing style. Students quickly caught on to her patterns and identified these rules to follow if we were to write a story like Laura Numeroff.
- The title should start with "If you give..."
- She has one animal and one girl or boy in each story.
- The first letter of the food, should have the same first letter as the animal.
- It always ends with "and chances are..." and connects back to the first thing you gave the animal.
- One thing leads to another.
They wrote a wonderful story (I only took notes and typed it up. They really wrote it all by themselves!) and illustrated it. It is now bound in our classroom. Feel free to come and check it out! Below is each page of the story:
